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ORIGINAL: English
DATE: February 2004
UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN / WORLD INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY ORGANIZATION

UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN

wipo national seminar on intellectual property for Faculty members and law students of the university of jordan

organized by
the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

in cooperation with
the University of Jordan

Amman, April 6 to 8, 2004

Provisional PROGRAM

Prepared by the International Bureau of WIPO

Tuesday, April 6, 2004

9.00 – 9.30 Opening Ceremony

Dr. Ahmad Ziadat, Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Jordan, Amman, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Mr. Sherif Saadallah, Executive Director,

Economic Development Bureau for Arab Countries,

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO),

Geneva, Switzerland

Dr. Abdallah Al-Mousa, President, University of Jordan,

Amman, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

9.30 – 10.00 Coffee Break

10.00 – 10.45 The Importance of Teaching and Training in the Field of Intellectual Property at Universities

Speaker: Dr. Hassan Gemei, Professor of Private Law,

Faculty of Law, Cairo University

10.45 – 11.30 The International Protection of Industrial Property: from the Paris

Convention to the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual

Property Rights (the TRIPS Agreement)

Speaker: Mr. Kanaan Al-Ahmar, Attorney at Law, Damascus, and

Research Fellow, Max-Planck-Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, Munich, Germany

11.30 – 12.15 The International Protection of Copyright and Related Rights: from

the Berne Convention, the TRIPS Agreement to the WIPO Copyright

Treaty (WCT) and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty

(WPPT)

Speaker: Dr. Hassan Gemei

12.15 – 12.45 Coffee Break

12.45 – 13.30 Objectives and Activities of the Economic Development Program

of WIPO in the Arab Region

Speaker: Ms. Luma Hamdan, Consultant, Economic Development Bureau for Arab Countries, WIPO, Geneva

13.30 – 14.15 The Protection of Well-Known marks

Speaker: Mr. Kanaan Al-Ahmar


Wednesday, April 7, 2004

9.30 – 10.15 Copyright and Related Rights in the Context of the Internet:

New Developments

Speaker: Dr. Hassan Gemei

10.15 – 11.15 The Protection of Intellectual Property Rights in Jordan

Speakers: Mr. Mamoun Al-Talhouni, Director General,

Department of the National Library, Ministry of Industry and Trade, Amman

Mr. Khaled Arabiyat, Acting Director, Directorate of Industrial Property Protection, Ministry of Industry

and Trade, Amman

11.15 – 11.45 Coffee Break

11.45 – 12.30 Protection of Undisclosed Information under the TRIPS Agreement

Speaker: Mr. Hassan Badrawi, Counsellor,

Legislative Department, Ministry of Justice, Cairo

12.30 – 13.15 Trade Secrets in the Field of Intellectual Property

Speaker: Dr. Qais Mahaftha, Professor of Law, Faculty of Law,

University of Jordan, Amman

13.15 – 14.00 Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights and Dispute Settlement Procedures under the World Trade Organization (WTO)

Speaker: Mr. Hassan Badrawi

Thursday, April 8, 2004

9.30 – 10.15 The Conflict Between Domain Names and Trademarks:

National and International Solutions

Speaker: Dr. Fayad Al Qoudah, Professor of Law, Faculty of Law,

University of Jordan, Amman

10.15 – 11.00 Arbitration and Intellectual Property

Speaker: Mr. Hassan Badrawi

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break

11.30 – 12.15 Litigation in the Field of Intellectual Property: Cases

(a) Industrial Property:

Speaker: Mr. Kanaan Al-Ahmar

(b) Copyright and Related Rights

Speaker: Dr. Hassan Gemei

12.15 – 13.00 Intellectual Property, Traditional Knowledge and Genetic Resources

Speakers: Mr. Hassan Badrawi

Dr. Hassan Gemei

13.00 – 13.45 Legal Aspects of Licensing under the Jordanian Law

Speaker: Dr. Tarek Hammori, Professor of Law, Faculty of Law,

University of Jordan, Amman

13.45 Closing Ceremony

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